Color Schemes for the Visual Studio Editor

Developers with a bit of time on their hands have built some beautiful color schemes for the Visual Studio Editor. You can save download these settings files to your ...\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Settings directory. You can then access them by choosing:

Tools | Import and Export Settings

Import Selected environment settings

No, just import new settings

(Consider saving the old settings the first time you do this.)

Select the new settings from the "My Settings" folder as shown in Figure 1

Choose next and import All Settings.

As shown in Figure 2, these files only have data from the Fonts and Colors sections of your VSettings file, so nothing else will be overwritten

Figure 1: Selecting the new fonts and colors for the Visual Studio Editor

Figure 2: You will only import new Fonts and Colors, the rest of your settings will be untouched

If you have color schemes you want to share with others, you need merely reverse the process, as follows:

Tools | Import and Export Settings

Export Selected Environment Settings

Unselect all settings, then drill down to choose the Fonts and Colors Settings (All Settings | Options | Environment | Fonts and Colors)